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You're depressed, which has already destroyed your creativity and ability to learn. Nothing has worked. Your option is to ECT, which may help, or have adverse s
by operator-name 4y ago
You're depressed, which has already destroyed your creativity and ability to learn. Nothing has worked. Your option is to ECT, which may help, or have adverse side effects.
Would you try it? If you've not got much to lose, why not? It's not as if suicide is suddenly no longer an option afterwards.
- generalizations 4y ago> which has already destroyed your creativity and ability to learn Don't think that's necessarily the case.
- operator-name 4y agoLoss of focus and difficulty retaining new information are common symptoms for major depressive episodes.
- idlehand 4y agoThere are other options than ECT which may have fewer side effects.
- andrewflnr 4y agoPossibly, as an absolute last resort. Not before. It's very unlikely, and at that point it being "more effective" than ketamine is barely germane, since I'm scraping the bottom of the barrel anyway.
- iSnow 4y agoBut that's what treatment-resistant depression is: either a life in misery, suicide or ECT/Ket as a hail-Mary maneuver. We are not talking about acute depression or people in midlife-crisis.